What the corpus says about American Psycho (2000)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished American Psycho (2000) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about American Psycho (2000) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read) · lineage · American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double. · "it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:16:12 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ American Psycho · theme · Silver's rage is the 80s American Psycho kind. · "pours all of his 80s American psycho rage into it"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:33 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ American Psycho · counterexample · American Psycho, made by a team with female voices, succeeds as critique where Star 80 lacks her point of view. · "American psycho has 2 female voices behind it and is therefore such an insightful and even funny critique"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:44:58 · unknown (0.35)] American Psycho ↔ Fight Club · misread satire · Both films are satire that fans take at face value. · "If you take this at face value, you are a fool and you are missing the point."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zoolander · programming · Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film. · "It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75. · "Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one. · "It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Boogie Nights · theme · Star 80 produces the same turn-it-off discomfort as the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights. · "Combined with the firework, the firecracker scene in boogie nights."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Joe Versus the Volcano · programming · Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks. · "Oh, Joe versus the volcano?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:07:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Anatomy of a Murder · theme · Concern for the ruined man instead of the woman echoes Anatomy of a Murder's rape-trial rhetoric. · "That reminds me of an anatomy of murder when they're prosecuting the, they're like, let's think about ruining a man's life before we convict this person of rape"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Lord of the Flies · programming · Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies. · "The 1990 Lord of the Flies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40)] Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book. · "obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:16:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Kate Plays Christine · theme · Kate Plays Christine is cited as a film about the compulsion to tell tragic victims' stories and play them. · "it is a movie about an actor trying to play a tragic, you know, a person who killed herself on news."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Halloween · lineage · Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel. · "I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40)] Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing. · "It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:23:50 · David Sims (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Cabaret · theme · Fosse's female characters like Sally Bowles and Honey Bruce got rich interior life, which Star 80 lacks. · "I would even argue, honey, Bruce, like, you know, who really is, like, pretty wonderful."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force. · "Dirty Harry done the same thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:41:40 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer (graphic novel) ↔ Fight Club · theme · The comic's killer has an inner monologue closer to the Fight Club narrator. · "it's more that like this guy's inner monologue is closer to Edward Norton Fight Club."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:28:09 · unknown (0.30)] Star 80 ↔ Peeping Tom · theme · Peeping Tom was also savaged on release but was later vindicated, unlike Star 80. · "Except Peeping Tom is like eventually kind of vindicated and this people were like, no, fuck you."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City. · "Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:48:38 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Andrew Kevin Walker ↔ Fight Club · theme · Walker brought a similar modern-tech angle (name tags) to Fight Club. · "I think he had some of that in fight club too"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:32:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lenny ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read) · craft · Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice. · "This movie, you have the interview, this sort of superstructure that he loves so much"
[speaker] Julie Klausner · latest sketch, Blank Check · Star 80 · A serious Fosse devotee who loves Cabaret, All That Jazz, Sweet Charity and Liza with a Z, and praises collaborations with women. She finds Star 80 powerful but ugly, a prurient pornographic film made by a man who will not look at the victim, and she is haunted by it. · stances: Star 80 is powerful but not great and not fabulous; It sexualizes violence against Stratton with no female point of view; Judge creative men by how they collaborate with women; Sweet Charity ranks above Star 80; Cabaret's restraint with Liza shows Fosse's best instincts
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with American Psycho (2000); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend American Psycho (2000) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.